Today, we worry about global warming, but the winter of 1709 was so cold in Europe that bread froze overnight and had to be hacked with an ax, roosters' combs, froze and fell off, trees exploded, and wolves stalked villages, searching for food. What caused this extraordinary cold? Scientists still aren't sure.
- Earth's changing climate
factors in climatic change
- New Scientist
1709: The year that Europe froze
- The Little Ice Age
how climate made history, 1300-1850
Global climate change: research explorer
Last updated by curious on Feb. 19, 2009
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